NUR 202 MIDTERM EXAM | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, NCLEX-STYLE
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Explain what is involved in each step of the nursing process as it relates to drug therapy - ANS
✔✔Assess:
- History
- Process
Diagnose:
- Primary medical problem
- Secondary medical problem
- Social, psychologic, educational, environmental, safety, nutritional problems
Plans
- Therapeutic Goal
- Medication Knowledge
- Special Needs Equipment (glucometer)
- Teaching Needs
Implement
- Right Drug
- Right Time
- Right Dose
- Right Practice
- Right Route
- Right Documentation
,Evaluate
- Therapeutic Effects
- Adverse Effects
- Allergy to medication
Identify health history questions to ask during the assessment phase that are pertinent to
medication administration. - ANS ✔✔Essential questions to ask in the initial history relate to
- chief complaint
- history of drug allergy
- past medical history
- medications currently used (OTC drugs, dietary supplements, and herbal products)
- personal and social history
-use of alcohol/
tobacco/caffeine
-use of street drugs/illicit substances
- reproductive health questions
- pregnancy status of women of childbearing age
Discuss key nursing interventions required in the implementation phase of the nursing process
for patients receiving medications. - ANS ✔✔Implementation Phase (action phase): nurse
applies the knowledge, skills, and principles of nursing care to help move the patient toward the
desired goal and optimal wellness
Key Nursing Interventions:
- administering a drug
- providing patient teaching/ education to ensure safe use of medication when discharged
, - interventions to maximize therapeutic response and prevent adverse effects
- continue to assess patient and monitor drug effects (primary intervention)
Explain the importance of the evaluation phase of the nursing process as applied to
pharmacotherapy. - ANS ✔✔Evaluation Phase: compares the patient's current health status
with the desired outcome
Importance:
-determines whether if the plan of care was appropriate, met, or needs revision
-If plan of care was met/ appropriate --> then address the next highest priority health need
-If plan of care was not met then the nursing process starts all over
-checkpoint for the nurse to ensure safe and effective medication use and active patient
involvement
Relates to Pharmacotherapy:
- Evaluation used to determine whether the therapeutic effects of the drug were achieved, or
adverse effects were prevented, or kept to acceptable levels
Compare and contrast the different steps of the nursing process. - ANS ✔✔Assessing: Collect
Data, Organize Data, Validate Data, Document Data
Diagnosing: Analyze Data, Identify Health Problems, Risks & Strengths, Formulate Diagnostic
Statements
Planning: Prioritizing problems/ diagnoses, formulate goals/ desired outcomes, select nursing
interventions, write nursing interventions
Implementing: Reassess the client, determine the nurse's need for assistance, implement the
nursing interventions, supervise delegated care, document nursing activities
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Explain what is involved in each step of the nursing process as it relates to drug therapy - ANS
✔✔Assess:
- History
- Process
Diagnose:
- Primary medical problem
- Secondary medical problem
- Social, psychologic, educational, environmental, safety, nutritional problems
Plans
- Therapeutic Goal
- Medication Knowledge
- Special Needs Equipment (glucometer)
- Teaching Needs
Implement
- Right Drug
- Right Time
- Right Dose
- Right Practice
- Right Route
- Right Documentation
,Evaluate
- Therapeutic Effects
- Adverse Effects
- Allergy to medication
Identify health history questions to ask during the assessment phase that are pertinent to
medication administration. - ANS ✔✔Essential questions to ask in the initial history relate to
- chief complaint
- history of drug allergy
- past medical history
- medications currently used (OTC drugs, dietary supplements, and herbal products)
- personal and social history
-use of alcohol/
tobacco/caffeine
-use of street drugs/illicit substances
- reproductive health questions
- pregnancy status of women of childbearing age
Discuss key nursing interventions required in the implementation phase of the nursing process
for patients receiving medications. - ANS ✔✔Implementation Phase (action phase): nurse
applies the knowledge, skills, and principles of nursing care to help move the patient toward the
desired goal and optimal wellness
Key Nursing Interventions:
- administering a drug
- providing patient teaching/ education to ensure safe use of medication when discharged
, - interventions to maximize therapeutic response and prevent adverse effects
- continue to assess patient and monitor drug effects (primary intervention)
Explain the importance of the evaluation phase of the nursing process as applied to
pharmacotherapy. - ANS ✔✔Evaluation Phase: compares the patient's current health status
with the desired outcome
Importance:
-determines whether if the plan of care was appropriate, met, or needs revision
-If plan of care was met/ appropriate --> then address the next highest priority health need
-If plan of care was not met then the nursing process starts all over
-checkpoint for the nurse to ensure safe and effective medication use and active patient
involvement
Relates to Pharmacotherapy:
- Evaluation used to determine whether the therapeutic effects of the drug were achieved, or
adverse effects were prevented, or kept to acceptable levels
Compare and contrast the different steps of the nursing process. - ANS ✔✔Assessing: Collect
Data, Organize Data, Validate Data, Document Data
Diagnosing: Analyze Data, Identify Health Problems, Risks & Strengths, Formulate Diagnostic
Statements
Planning: Prioritizing problems/ diagnoses, formulate goals/ desired outcomes, select nursing
interventions, write nursing interventions
Implementing: Reassess the client, determine the nurse's need for assistance, implement the
nursing interventions, supervise delegated care, document nursing activities
